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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add retry logic for z agent on the source side

Today the IDR agent for DB2 on z only use retry logic for the target side. The request is to add retry logic to the source side. For example, a table is defined as a child in RI relationship. when you load the child table: 1. it goes into CHKP sta...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

NUMA aware memory allocations.

In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Cognos Command Center 10.2.5 IF3 default login issue

We have upgraded Cognos Command Center product from 10.2.4 IF17 to 10.2.5 IF3 version last month. While login into CCC client, we are experiencing an issue. Scenarios:1. If we are clicking directly on login with default setting as standard process...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

set editor: possibility to replace member with leaf nodes

if you have an existing view that you want to modify, this would be very practical Now, you first need to clear the current set, and then only you can insert member with leaf nodes.would be useful if you could do this in 1 step with replace with l...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DMC Reports vs DSM Reports in Email

1) DSM we are getting an email with the database report attached through email , which was easy for us to SAVE / download directly without logging into DSM console . 2) DMC we are getting an email with the link to DMC console where we need to clic...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve speed and stability of Controller when have large numbers company locks (XACCLOCK table)

If a customer has a complicated company structure (e.g. with many different actualities) then after they create company locks for all their periods/actualities, XACCLOCK becomes absolutely enormous For example, one of our customers has 22 million ...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Ability to Split Documents At Ingest Time

It would be useful to be able to provide Discovery logic that would allow it to split one ingested document into multiple indexed documents. For example, make every paragraph or page a single Discovery document.
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 7 Delivered